If you want to know more how to use XForms and XULRunner for application development and how the Mozilla Rapid Release Cycle has affected the development of such applications, join me for my talk as FOSDEM this year. More information is available at the FOSDEM website! See you there!

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VirtualBox and its USB support always have caused some trouble. Since VirtualBox 4, the USB support is not part of a different binary any more (PUEL vs. OSE), but lives inside an extension pack, which you can download from the VirtualBox download site. On openSUSE, this means you can install the VirtualBox package using Yast [...]

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This combination seems to be a bit hard for openSUSE. While PulseAudio solves many problems Linux users have with audio (and creates others), openSUSE seems to make it even harder for users to make use of it. That’s usually not a problem, until Skype comes into the game. As soon as it detects PulseAudio being [...]

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Did you ever want to sync your Majordomo mailing list with another address database? Or make it easy for users to unsubscribe using a web interface? Then you will have noticed that Majordomo only offers you a mail interface or an admin tool that you have install on your mailserver. So what if you don’t [...]

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I have several PCs mounting its home directory as well as other data directories from a NFS server. Until now I was using good (?) old NFSv3. Today I tried a switch to NFSv4 in order to decrease locking the problems Firefox has with its sqlite databases being on a NFS filesystem. Quick notes: if [...]

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Firefox 3.6 will be released today, Januar 21st. Unfortunately the XForms extension for this version is not yet ready. We’re planning an official release for Firefox 3.6 within this quarter, see bug 539184 for details. The nightly builds for 3.6 are currently broken as well, I hope to get this fixed until the end of [...]

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Yeah, documentation in an unstable wiki is great. I wonder if MDC uses HTTPS only to make it even slower …

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Damit alle, die kein KDE4 benutzen (oder sich noch nicht von Ubuntu trennen können), dennoch in Genuss des Mensa-Speiseplans bekommen, habe ich die RSS-Feeds aktualisiert (die gab es schon länger, aber eher so als Service unter Freunden): http://philipp.wagner.name/cafeteriamenu/ Der Quellcode ist ebenfalls im Mercurial Repository verfügbar (nein, Code zum Parsen von HTML-Seiten ist nicht schön). [...]

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The semester starts again and I took the chance to get back to the cafeteria plasmoid and fix some old issues. Changes include: Fix the cmake build files to work with newer KDE versions. Add caching and network status detection to the data engine. The menu for the next week is cached if you are [...]

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Today I had to copy several LVM partitions to another machine. The first tools I thought of were dd and netcat (nc), the swiss army knife for every sysadmin. But the following two lines didn’t make me happy: source$ ssh root@192.168.66.2 — nc -l 3333 \| dd of=/dev/VolGroupData/data1 & source$ dd if=/dev/VolGroupData/data1 | nc 192.168.66.2 [...]

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